Sentences with phrase «people adapt to climate change»

«Of the roughly one billion U.S. dollars spent every day across the world on climate finance, only 6 % of it is devoted to helping people adapt to climate change in the present.

The bottom line is that people adapt to climate change and so long as it is relatively modest — and there is growing evidence that it will be — the human condition will almost certainly be no worse off and probably even better.

With a synthesis of the state of knowledge, this document provides an overview of how ecosystems can play a role in helping people adapt to climate change, through the compilation of examples and relevant knowledge products, and a discussion of issues related to the understanding and implementation of such approaches.

Not exact matches

One is adapting to climate change and the other is the economic and well being of the Arctic people.

The most vulnerable victims of climate destruction, he claims, are the world's poorest people, who lack the resources to adapt to climate change and natural disasters.

It is too hard to ask someone to change and adapt to the current climate because a person is who they are and they have their own beliefs.

Mass Audubon served on the Climate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee, which ensured that the GWSA included measures to help people and nature adapt to climate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immedClimate Change Adaptation Advisory Committee, which ensured that the GWSA included measures to help people and nature adapt to climate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immediChange Adaptation Advisory Committee, which ensured that the GWSA included measures to help people and nature adapt to climate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immedclimate change impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immedichange impacts that are inevitable even if greenhouse gas emissions were stopped immediately.

But this year's report instead focuses on how people are, and should be, adapting to climate change.

When most people think about wildlife in a changing climate, they think of polar bears clinging to melting ice, but even species who have adapted to tropical weather are being impacted by the changes to their environment.

We still can not predict exactly how climate change will affect each part of the world, but the people on the front lines are showing others how to adapt

Scientists say reserves can help marine ecosystems and people adapt to five key impacts of climate change: ocean acidification; sea - level rise; increased intensity of storms; shifts in species distribution, and decreased productivity and oxygen availability.

People who recently experienced severe weather events such as floods, storms and drought are more likely to support policies to adapt to the effects of climate change, according to a new study co-authored by an Indiana University researcher.

It seems to follow that experiencing extreme weather would make people more supportive of policies to adapt to climate change.

This is not a fable, it's a tale of how people are already adapting to climate change, as revealed at the International Institute for Environment and Development's sixth conference on community - based adaptation to climate change held in Vietnam in April.

An international team of scientists has developed a strategy to boost people's ability to adapt to climate change, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate climate change, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate Cchange, revealed in a new study published today in the journal, Nature Climate Climate ChangeChange.

As well as providing protection from the increasingly unpredictable weather, the premiums could also be a powerful way to get poor people to adapt to climate change by encouraging them to invest in measures like drought - resistant crops.

The projections, he says, build in the ability of farming people to adapt to climate change by changing crops or farming methods.

«EbA is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of an overall adaptation to help people and communities adapt to the negative effects of climate change at local, regional, and global levels.»

«Overcoming hurdles to climate change adaptation in the Arctic: Arctic peoples inherently able to adapt given changes to various non-climatic factors.»

Says the very same person who literally believes that climate change is causing 30,000 species a year to go extinct... even though only 1 species has been confirmed to have gone extinct since 2000 (a mollusc), and that ocean «acidification» is happening so fast that marine species can not adapt.

In turning to a methodological issue, the new archaeological horizons in the Monte Verde area are difficult to trace laterally over areas larger than ~ 8 — 10 m2 and probably represent only fragments of a broader landscape utilized by people adapting to changing climates and environments in the area.

The Workshop will seek to educate and empower young people on how to adapt and manage the exposure and impacts of climate change, environmental pollution and the loss of natural resources through capacity building.

For my Modern World History class, I adapted an argumentative writing task about climate change to ask students «How is climate change affecting people around the world?».

According to this logic, the individual «good - hearted U.S. citizen» — although he or she possesses «vast wealth», and although he or she «helped create» the problems caused by global warming & climate change — is not to be held individually responsible for helping (the people in) poor countries adapt to probems caused by CO2 emissions.

Here on our doorstep at Columbia University in NYC there is a huge team of scientists along with Al Gore who just won the Noble Prize for doing the research and spreading the word on climate change and with the Columbia Earth Institute as an advisor the city on how to adapt to this crisis and do our fair share in mitigating it, the members of this Noble Prize winning team should be brought front and center to explain the dire situation to the people of this town.

As can be seen, people adapt themselves to local / regional climate, but feel the impact of sudden changes either way out.

Climate Change Making Calendars Run Amok People in Central Asia are recalibrating their system of time to adapt to a changing ecosystem.

While mitigation climate change is essential adapting to and through centuries of warming is paramount... the stories of animals, plants and people adapting to a warming world express trust in our ability to adjust to changing conditions, even radical ones, and to establish a voice for resilience in uncertain times.

«Safe Coast Virginia: Climate Change Threats and Practical Solutions for Coastal Virginia» contains no big surprises, but CCAN director Mike Tidwell said it is the first to aggregate the latest science, tell the stories of real people experiencing climate change and recommend 10 achievable ways to mitigate and adapt to the inevitable impacts of a rising sea and subsiding coaClimate Change Threats and Practical Solutions for Coastal Virginia» contains no big surprises, but CCAN director Mike Tidwell said it is the first to aggregate the latest science, tell the stories of real people experiencing climate change and recommend 10 achievable ways to mitigate and adapt to the inevitable impacts of a rising sea and subsiding coasChange Threats and Practical Solutions for Coastal Virginia» contains no big surprises, but CCAN director Mike Tidwell said it is the first to aggregate the latest science, tell the stories of real people experiencing climate change and recommend 10 achievable ways to mitigate and adapt to the inevitable impacts of a rising sea and subsiding coaclimate change and recommend 10 achievable ways to mitigate and adapt to the inevitable impacts of a rising sea and subsiding coaschange and recommend 10 achievable ways to mitigate and adapt to the inevitable impacts of a rising sea and subsiding coastline.

A documentary of people living with the consequences of global warming as well as scientists» new approaches to mitigating climate change and adapting to an evolving planet.

It underscores that poor countries, communities and persons are least able to adapt to climate change and reduce its immediate negative impacts on their lives.

This analytical report presents the concerted action taken by the UN system to assist people and communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change through: (i) risks, impacts and vulnerability assessment; (ii) adaptation planning, including creating an enabling environment; (iii) the implementation of adaptation measures, which includes UNISDR's work on climate change related disaster risk reduction and risk sharing; (iv) awareness raising; and (v) knowledge sharing and facilitate learning.

As a result of the significant scientific effort to date, aided by public concern, models simulating climate change have gained considerable skill... There will be many scientific and technical challenges along the way, but the hope is that simulations of the global environment will be able to maximise the number of people around the world who can adapt to, and be protected from the worst impacts of, global warming.

Adapting to changes already underway: As the Climate Hot Map demonstrates, the impacts of a warming world are already being felt by people around the globe.

It is completely plausible that by burning fossil fuels we accelerate the amount of co2 increase and that that could have an impact on our climate by warming it up — in particular (and people seem to forget this) by warming it and changing our climate faster than we can adapt.

From GBM's perspective it does not have to be a choice between people or forest, and with climate change already being felt in Africa and many parts of the world, it is an issue of climate justice that we ensure people receive the resources, information and support they need to adapt to climate change.

The United Nations Environment Programmme (UNEP) has launched a web app and infographic to support people living and working on coasts in making decisions on how to adapt to a changing climate.

Urban economic growth has caused climate change (think of the billions of people who are achieving the «American Dream») but it will also help us to adapt to climate change.

Given that mainstream climate change scientific view holds that the Earth could experience rapid non-linear climate change impacts which outstrip the ability of some people and nations to adapt, should this fact affect whether nations which emit high levels of ghgs should be able to use scientific uncertainty as an excuse for non-action on climate change?

Rural people will in some cases adapt to climate change using their own knowledge, resources and networks.

The capacity to cope with climate hazards and adapt to impacts of climate change depends on the strength and diversity of peoples» livelihood assets viz. natural, social, human, financial and physical assets.

«REDD and other climate change mitigation and adaptation measures will only achieve lasting results if they are adapted to conditions on the ground and help meet the needs of local people,» said Forests Dialogue in a statement.

The approaches available to help coastal communities adapt to the impacts of climate change fall into three general categories: 1) Protection of people, property and infrastructure is a typical first response.

In Europe, evidence is also accumulating that people are adapting to climate change, either in response to observed changes or in anticipation of predicted change.

if people could adapt during the Ice Age,... - they certainly should be able to adapt to almost any climate change... During the Little Ice Age, from around 1400 to 1800 or 1850,... Harvests failed.

Sometimes emission reductions weren't enough AND people can't adapt to the climate change.

Indeed, our technology and wealth will make people and civilizations much better able to prepare for and adapt to most climate changes, although another Pleistocene - scale ice age would devastate northern cities, decimate agricultural production, and drive human and species migrations.

Evidence climate change is real: people who are fervent apostles of it actually adapt to standards of living that do not include private jets and mega mansions.

And while the growing impacts of climate change are bad for people in the developed world, many in developing countries have it much worse, given their increased vulnerability and lack of resources and capacity to adapt.

It is fundamentally people's ability to adapt spontaneously and autonomously to climate — changing or not — that explains the outcome of climate change in the world that was looked at by the WHO.